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The agency issued an order with specific
requirements for mitigation strategies for
beyond-design basis external events.
Designed to rigorous specifications,
the dome will withstand 360 mph winds,
event driven missiles and seismic forces.
Contact: Lisa Schunack, telephone:
(305) 633-3336.
Lighting Systems
AREVA Inc.
signed an agreement
with BIRNS, Inc., a lighting design
and manufacturing company, to be
the exclusive distributor of its lighting
systems for the North American nuclear
industry. AREVA will also provide its
customers with engineering expertise and
installation services for BIRNS’ lighting
systems.
BIRNS is the original equipment
manufacturer for many of the lighting
systems present in U.S. nuclear power
plants today. These systems offer
robust illumination and enhanced safety
with seismically qualified emergency
lighting, high bay lights, fuel storage
pool illumination, reactor core refueling
lighting and 360-degree lights. All
lighting systems are stringently tested
before installation to confirm their
safety and quality during inspection and
maintenance operations.
Contact: Curtis Roberts, telephone:
Project of the Year
DataGlance’s
electronic
Work
Package solution and The University of
Utah Nuclear Engineering Program’s
implementation of the
DevonWay
Track
and Trace solution took home Project
of the Year Awards during the February
2015 DevonWay Ci7 Conference in San
Diego. DevonWay provides Intelligent
Enterprise Solutions that optimize
business processes and guide change
management activities at high reliability
organizations.
Contact:
Maggie
Swanson,
telephone: (415) 659-9002, email:
.
Training Area
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
(GEH)
dedicated its new reactor under-vessel
training area in Wilmington, North
Carolina. It is a state-of-the-art, full-size
replica of the operating area underneath a
boiling water nuclear reactor.
“This new, full-size area will enable
us to further enhance the training of
professionals who support refueling
and maintenance outages at reactors
worldwide,” said GEH Field Services
General Manager Beth Lemmons. “As
our services business continues to grow,
this reinvestment will ensure that our
field services teams continue to exceed
our customers’ expectations.”
The training area has multiple work
locations to better simulate real world
scenarios including the simultaneous
use of toolsets and work processes. The
area also includes piped water in order
to replicate conditions that workers
encounter in the field.
Hundreds of highly-skilled nuclear
professionals will receive advanced
training at the facility. Increasing the
proficiency of field services teams enables
outage services work to be completed in
less time and results in reduced radiation
dosage for reactor workers. In addition,
the training area will allow newly-
developed tools to be tested in a realistic
environment.
Contact: Jon Allen, telephone: (910)
GNF3
Global Nuclear Fuel
(GNF)
introduced its next generation fuel design,
GNF3.
Based on evolutionary design
changes and advanced technology
developed by GNF, the GNF3 fuel
assembly design will provide customers
with improved fuel economics, increased
performance and flexibility in operation
while maintaining the superior reliability
of GNF2, the most reliable design in
GNF’s history.
“We designed GNF3 to deliver more
power while reducing overall fuel cycle
costs,” said Amir Vexler, Chief Operator
Officer of GNF-Americas. “The enhanced
GNF3 design will save utilities money
by reducing batch fraction, lowering the
average enrichment in fuel reloads and
extracting more power from the core.”
In addition to improved fuel
utilization and performance, GNF3 is
designed and manufactured to be more
resistant to debris capture and to exhibit
the best available corrosion resistance
of any boiling water reactor fuel. GNF3,
which features a robust structural design
that is built to last, will be fabricated
at GNF’s state-of-the-art facility in
Wilmington, N.C.
GNF3 is available in lead use
assembly quantities to customers today.
Eight GNF3 lead use assemblies were
loaded in two plants in January 2015 and
are currently operating as designed (four
each at Entergy’s River Bend Station
and Exelon’s LaSalle County Station).
GNF3 is scheduled to be available for full
reloads in 2018.
Contact: Jon Allen, telephone: (910)
Interim Storage
Holtec International
and the Eddy
Lea EnergyAlliance (ELEA), LLC signed
an agreement to establish an underground
consolidated interim storage facility in
southeastern NewMexico, approximately
12 miles from the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant (WIPP) facility. ELEA, a limited
liability company owned by the cities of
Carlsbad and Hobbs, and Eddy County
and Lea County, has successfully secured
the support of the state of New Mexico
to build a state-of-the-art interim storage
facility on their industrial land.
According to the Agreement, Holtec
will design, license, build and operate the
storage facility, which will be an enlarged
version of the HI-STORM UMAX
(acronym for Underground MAXimum
security) system being deployed at
two nuclear plants in the United States.
ELEA will contribute the extensive site
characterization data in its possession
from its archives and serve the critical
role of continuing community outreach.
Holtec’s President and CEO, Kris
Singh, told the attendees at the press
conference, “This Agreement translates
our federal government’s aspirations
into a concrete reality. The ELEA
consolidated storage facility will serve
as a splendid example of a sound public
policy rendered into physical reality by
private initiative and government support.
We will, subject to DOE’s support and
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